End of preview

This is an unformatted preview. Sign up to view the full document

End of preview

Astral Projection Imagine if you could go anywhere you wanted to for free Think what it would be like to travel wherever you want whenever you want You are at total peace with yourself and your surroundings You can meet people and beings you would otherwise never meet Enter the Astral Plane a place where ones consciousness can exist directly within the physical world Astral projection is a highly popular area of the occult Many followers believe they can will their consciousness to depart their physical body However there are also many skeptics out there who doubt the validity of the believers claims Although there are many people who believe that one can will his or her subconscious to travel away from their body physical proof is lacking to prove or disprove this truth The major cause of skepticism toward metaphysical occurrences or abilities is the lack of proof Several studies have been conducted However most of them prove inconclusive In an experiment conducted by Dr Russel Targ and James Randi of Stanford Institute Ingo Shwann and Harold Sherman claimed to have traveled in space They claimed they traveled to planets in the solar system before any spacecraft had traveled that far Their claims were compared to the findings of Mariner 10 According to the results forty percent of the claims were false Only one in sixty-five of the claims were facts that could not be found in research books This data could not be interpreted either as for or against the validity of the claims since thought can affect the astral planeGoodin 12 Psychologists and scientists who are nonbelievers feel the out-of-body experience is merely a lucid dream A lucid dream is an imagination of the mind and according to Matt Holmes they are very different from astral projection People who claim to possess this unique power say that there is a difference between astral projection and lucid dreaming as they have

@Kibin is a lifesaver for my essay right now!!

- Sandra Slivka, student @ UC Berkeley

Wow, this is the best essay help I've ever received!

- Camvu Pham, student @ U of M

If I'd known about @Kibin in college, I would have gotten much more sleep